Dress codes … heating up?
by Olivia
The TUC has today urged employers to relax dress codes to make work ‘more bearable’ for staff. Short sleeves and shorts have been suggested as ways of keeping cool. The TUC have even gone a step further and suggested a new law enforcing an absolute indoor maximum of 30C with employers being compelled to introduce cooling measures when outside temperatures hit 24C.
Employees may well be confused with this advice. Earlier in the year, the general consensus was that employees needed to smarten up in order to keep their jobs. Retailers selling suits, ties and more formal attire noted an upturn in demand for the ’sharper City look’.
So, if wearing a suit earlier in the year marked you out as being responsible, in control and good at your job, does abandoning it now when the going gets hot mark you out as anything less? Or, just plain sensible?!
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This is making me dizzy, really. If shorts will be allowed, I’m going to have a hard time identifying the employees from the non-employees. It’s a good thing we have uniform. I can wear adar scrubs as long as I want.
macy said at July 10th, 2009 at 6:16 pm